Because the NRA and pro-gun lobby believes that our right to have any gun we want is worth the additional cost in life and limb. And our legislators are apparently owned or cowed by them. It’s that simple.

Apparently it’s not possible to have a reasonable discussion about guns in the USA without arguing along political faultlines.

I wonder if the national narrative of “worlds best country” aka “shining city on the hill” is the reason why a normal debate or even change is not happening. If you believe that “no one can do better” or you “can’t do no wrong” you have no reason to learn from others.

I maintain that we as a society haven’t reached the number of deaths required in one blow to make us do something about it.

26 people in Sandy Hook was close, but still pretty far off. Individual killings obviously don’t matter, as we’ve had a shedload of deaths this year already, they need to be in one big mass for people to finally stand up and want to help.

Millions of sane gun owners killed no one today. You will never stamp out all evil or all the crazies - at least not with out enacting some sort of draconian laws and hellacious surveillance systems and remove privacy from our lives.

Why, here in the ol’ US of A it’s just a sheer coincidence they all use guns! That the crazy people in other countries have to be content just wounding people with knives instead of ending their lives with efficiency just shows their backwardsness!

also:
“All mass shooters are on antidepressants.”
“Another casualty of gun-free zones”
“There’s nothing we can do about it, so we should do nothing.”
“It’s too soon in the wake of this tragedy to politicize it.”